#rf cecilia

[runefactorynonsense]

Cozytober - Day 16 - Book

...I'm scared of that book.

[lilaroxa]

RF1: Year 1 - Spring 24

I've found it! The source that makes me think there is a war going on between Elves and Humans (at least in the RF1 era).

On Spring 24, Raguna speaks to Tabatha in the general store. I think their conversation is quite interesting, so I'll quote it below: Tabatha: "Mr. Raguna, we really talked about a lot of things." Raguna: "Yeah, we did." Tabatha: "Mr. Raguna, talking to you, I really feel my belief that dwarves can be friends with humans can be realized." Raguna: "Tabatha, even though you are human, you always refer to people as “humans”. Isn’t that a little strange?" Tabatha: "Oh, didn’t I tell you? I’m an elf." Raguna: "What?" Tabatha: "It’s not the norm, but I’m working in the human world." Raguna: "I never would’ve guessed!" Tabatha: "That’s because I usually keep my ears covered!" Raguna: "I’m surprised…" Tabatha: "I’m sorry I surprised you. Even now you know I’m an elf, I hope we can still get along." Raguna: "Yes, of course we can." Firstly, I love that Raguna was curious enough to ask Tabatha why she speaks the way she does. He definitely got some bonus points Tabatha for being direct and asking her.

I also think it's sweet that Tabatha forgot that she didn't tell Raguna about her being an elf. I interpret her forgetfulness as stemming from how much she feels like she can be herself around Raguna. Or perhaps, she decided to experiment with Raguna's amnesia. If Raguna has forgotten everything about his past, wouldn't that make him kind of an adult human "blank slate"? Wouldn't he be the best way for her to get her answers about human nature?

Unfortunately, there aren't any events where we can see Tabatha speaking to anyone else but Raguna (except in the beginning with Bianca, but the scene is more about her than Tabatha). So, I'm not sure if she refers to humans as "humans" with anyone else.

But the big question remains: why does Tabatha cover her ears?

I think the main reason is that she wants to pass for a human as much as she can. That way, she can study them more closely and understand them on a deeper level. After all, humans surrounded by humans will always act naturally. She wouldn't have to worry about people treating her differently or her ears attracting unwanted attention.

But then, later that evening, Raguna visits Russell at the library after hours.

Russell confesses that Cecilia is his adopted daughter and that he found her on a battlefield in a distant land.

While this could mean that Russell used to be part of the Norad Army and participated in battles far to the north of Kardia against the Sechs Empire, I'm not sure if he would still call it a "distant land". If it were against the Sechs Empire, wouldn't he have just said so?

To me, it sounds like he's talking about a third land - Azuma (the East), or the Elven Kingdom. Considering that Cecilia is half-elf and half-human, I'm more inclined to believe that the "distant land" he's referring to is the Elven Kingdom.

What's more, the way Russell talks about war, seems to align pretty well with what Tabatha speaks about when she wishes for a world where all races and monsters could live in peace. Russell shares that "War made [him] hollow inside" and that only "this land, the books of our ancestors... and that child made [him] whole again".

Tabatha, possibly having become accustomed to hearing about or possibly even seeing human warriors, people like Russell who had become hollowed by war, I don't blame her for covering her ears.

On one hand, she could be doing so out of fear. But I believe that she came to Kardia to seek the truth, and as I said before, the more she blends in as a human, the more she can learn about them.

Additionally, Tabatha seems to be averse to fighters. Whenever Raguna heads off to the next cave, she asks things like "Are you a fighter or a farmer"? She always seems very intent on testing Raguna's nature, or asking him questions that would provoke him to explain his motives.

I'm sure I'll touch on this more later as we progress through the story!

** TABATHA ROMANCE SPOILERS BELOW **

This theory also supports Tabatha's true reason for coming to Kardia. If she could prove to the humans and elves that two individuals could love each other despite their race, maybe the war could slowly come to an end. It also helps that Raguna is an apt fighter and would make for an excellent human ambassador for her cause. Or, if I'm wrong about the war, at least she gets to be the bridge between humans, elves, dwarves, and monsters.

It's a little cliché/cheesy, but I like it.

** TABATHA ROMANCE SPOILERS END**

Row 24 goes to Tabatha and her bravery!

LILA'S RUNE FACTORY TEMPERATURE BLANKET

Phew, it's finally out in the open. Thanks for reading this far if you're still here. If you can't tell, Tabatha's lines about peace have never left my brain, ever since I played the game as a kid!

One of my goals with this project was to sit down and ask myself the big questions about the Rune Factory universe. It's been so much fun creating fan theories about the franchise! Thanks again, everyone, who has come along with me on this journey so far!

[kendricksilver]

Part 2 of editing RF children portraits to match my favorite bachelorette/bachelor~

This time we have Rune Factory 2 and Cecilia!

I know that Aria and Aaron would technically be quarter elves, but Orland gets his elf ears when Jake marries Yue, so I think they deserve elf ears too (even though the ears were a pain as usual 😭). I always find it funny how the game treats Orland as more of an elf under these circumstances, even though they're both quarter elves.

I found Cecilia really entertaining. Her proposal is so odd, and I love it. I always collect round stones in RF4 because they remind me of her. I also love how she's a returning character from an earlier game, because it's fun to see her story expanded on. Her design is amazing too. Knowing my preference for Tabatha in RF1, I seem to have some sort of bias for elf maids (weird that it happened twice ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ )

(You can request an edit for your favorite bachelorette/bachelor from any game, if you're interested!)

Unedited images and Cecilia for reference under the cut

[runefactory-marriage-tournament]

RF Bachelorette Tournament - Side A Round 2

[kardia-library-official]

I don't think it's going to be the next game I play, but the next RF game I'm going to play is RF2, and like... I am going to write something where Russell and probably Nicholas visit Cecilia in Alvarna. It's pretty much inevitable.

Because a) that family are my blorbos, b) even references to something like this were really conspicuously absent in canon, and c) imagine the sheer CHAOS.

People have to go to some unfamiliar rich-person house (volatile situation at the best of times). Cecilia makes some comically elaborate meal and everything that possibly could go wrong does. Max talks for three hours straight because these people are STRANGERS and haven't heard all his stories/aren't familiar enough to just tell him to shut the fuck up. Russell calls Rosalind "Bianca" about 45 times. Rosalind tries to feed Russell some kind of sketchy bathtub lactaid. Nicholas and Cecilia pull a grand prank for old times' sake and break a priceless family heirloom in the process. A whole other heirloom gets broken because someone was too drunk at the function. And who the hell is going to clean all this shit up??

(...Cecilia will, because it's her job and also her people who at least indirectly contributed to the mess. Everyone will try to help but they'll all make things WORSE.)

[runeyseason]

Hi this is the same person who asked how reserves work, I have another question :) I looked around and I didn't see this mentioned anywhere but I want to know how the timeline works here since the games take place over a lot of time and 5 is several decades after 4 ?

hi again!!! feel free to ask as many questions as you want!! i like answering them.

that is a good one too, i'm surprised i forgot to actually mention it anywhere. So basically, here's how the timeline works:

It doesn't.

(Okay, it DOES, but that's the best way I can think of for how to put this). Effectively, we're... handwaving it? But not handwaving it, exactly -- the timeline still very much exists, and each game exists at its own time across the many decades RF spans, but it's something that doesn't really matter unless you want it to. Think of it like how there's an official drama CD track of all the protagonists across the series interacting: they can, so they do! Everyone can interact across the forum or, if they get the chance, in person, so they do! Why not!

Of course, people can actually go into timeline stuff if they want to write it out and explore and how the people they're interacting with are different from how they know them (ex. RF2-era Cecilia interacting with any RF1 characters, or Doug and / or Margaret from RF4 interacting with RF5 ones, or anything involving the DSCs considering. the DSCs. and also how Porcoline, Bianca, & Electra are around the same age group when you put the timeline together, etc.!)

But for the sake of what's ultimately a casual group: it doesn't matter unless you want it to. ty for the question! <3

[belleofhell]

Day 2 of @rfweeks RF4S Release Week: Exploration

Pairing: Cecilia/Nicholas

Hope you all enjoy! <3

[amethystmoon420]

You said farewell,  and I thought we’d never see each other again. I’m so glad fate thought otherwise.

Joined @runefactorysecretsanta again this year, and got to work on some Nicholas/Cecilia for @unapologeticbisexual! I hope you like your gift!

I had a lot of fun drawing these two! \(^o^)/ They’re super adorable together. It makes me wanna try and finish RF1 again just to see more of them interacting. 

[zweinai-art]

Expectations vs Reality (it was then when Jake realised he was in love)

An addition to the Yue/Jake, Cecilia/Nicholas comic I drew the other day!!! I felt like drawing soft colours and I had some free time today so I did this!! I feel like Yue is probably super strong from all the stuff she has to carry everyday and Jake loves it ofc

ngl I’m actually so invested in Yue/Jake now, what a plot twist ahaha.. 

[aprildoesart]

Ceci’s a cute patoot <3

[wishvalley]

Cecilia from Rune Factory 1  ♥ 

[runefactorynonsense]

Cozytober - Day 9 - Hay Ride

[lilaroxa]

Draw Your OTP: Day 20 - Making Dinner

Jake's showing her how Elven warriors prepare their food.

[forestofbeginnings]

Rune Factory Gaiden: Another Day

Released in 2007, Rune Factory Gaiden: Another Day is a short visual novel developed as a collaboration between Marvelous Entertainment and Liveware Inc. It was only released for flip-phones and served as extra stories between Raguna, the heroines of the original Rune Factory, and some of the other villagers. Think of this game as providing the heart events that the original Rune Factory lacked (aside from the marriage events). 

This game was released as season trilogies containing three routes each, meaning there are Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter versions.

This service did cost money to play. I could not find the exact price for each route, but I did find a Bokujou Monogatari game, also made as a collaboration between Liveware and Marvelous, which had a monthly subscription of about 300 yen per month, so I would guess that it would be around the same price or more, though I’m guessing a little more since this would be a one-time purchase.

Unfortunately, Liveware has since went under. The company’s website is shut down (you can visit the website but it has nothing of interest - any research on them should be done via Wayback Machine), and I do not believe you can access these games anymore. If anyone has any leads on how to access these games in any capacity, please do not hesitate to let me know!

Special thanks to @ada-tan for finding some of the images~!

[runefactory-marriage-tournament]

RF Bachelorette Tournament - Side A Round 1

[kardia-library-official]

Like, my headcanon for Livia is basically exactly like Chil in that comic! Small and maybe easily mistaken for a child by the unobservant, but has some noticeable signs of aging when you look closer.

And of course I thought of all the dumb Cecil arguments, but I actually think the ultimate age-ambiguous RF character is... Russell.

Like, you could tell me he was supposed to be 25 or 45 in a vacuum and I'd believe you. Except when you factor in his backstory and having raised Cecilia from a baby, it's implausible that he'd be at the younger end of that range. Hence why I never really bought him with Tori, even though they were supposedly going to be a canon rival couple.

Anyway, I remember when I was writing ATNG, I decided to just embrace that ambiguity and run with it, and had a lot of fun making it into something that works for his character, in terms of both translating a cartoon to writing and the ~metaphor~ of it all. What I ended up with was like... He has kind of boyish features that read young, but his hands are pretty weathered and his hair is like 1/4 grey up close. Hard living/arrested development. You get it!

(And yeah, he totally does the Dad Grunt when standing or sitting and probably has since his early 20s. War is hell, kids!)